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Capt. N. Vicary^s Notes on the Botany of Sinde. 
Capparide^. 
4. Cleome ruta, Jacqt. : Sukkur and other rocky places in Sinde. 
The petals are pink, and bear at the base of each a fringed 
scale. 
5. Cleome fimbriata, Vic. : lower hills in Sinde. 
Stems and leaves hispid from gland-capitate stiff hairs ; leaves 
all simple, lower ones long-petioled, round-cordate, quintuple- 
nerved, outer lateral nerves lost in the margin, three medial 
nerves stronger and inarcuately reaching the apex. Upper leaves 
smaller, subconform narrower, subsessile ; flowers pale purple ? 
from the terminal axillse ; pedicels lengthening in fruit ; calyx 
clothed with gland-capitate hairs. Sepals four, subequal, lan- 
ceolate. Petals four, shortly clawed with acute oblong-deltoid 
laminae, apices bearing out gland-capitate hairs, and ciliate with 
them ; bases toothed slightly on the margins, and bearing above 
claw transverse free fimbriate petaloid scales. Fertile stamens 
four, rather longer than petals, one anther larger, torus small. 
Ovary subsessile, linear, rather rough ; style caducous, cylindric, 
short ; stigma discoid, capitate. Capsule linear-cylindric, fur- 
rowed on opposite sides, shortly stipitate, densely clothed with 
strongly stipitate, peltate glands, one-celled, two-valved, valves 
separating from the placentiferous narrow replum ; seeds nume- 
rous, cordiform, smooth, amphitropous. I have given my note 
of this plant, as it seems to be not far removed from C. Di'o- 
serifoliay Del. ; and perhaps eventually it may prove to be the 
same. 
6. Cleome rupicola, Vic. : passes leading into the Hala range 
of mountains and lower hills. 
This plant is not unlike C. glauca, DeC., vol. i. p. 239, but the 
stems and leaves of my plant are clothed with scattered gland- 
headed hairs, and the young branches are four-angled. Leaves el- 
liptic, ovate and obovate, petiolate, upper leaves reduced to linear- 
lanceolate bracts. Racemes often six inches long. Petals orange- 
rufescent, secund, smooth ; stamens secund, in an opposite direc- 
tion to petals, six ; gland of the torus semilunate ; siliques pen- 
dulous, falcate, flat, subsessile, fifteen lines long, two lines broad, 
bearing some scattered capitate hairs ; seeds densely beset with 
brown hairs, numerous. 
7. Cadaba Indica ? : on rocks near Kurrachee and Hala moun- 
tains. 
I am doubtful about this plant, having seen it only in fruit. 
The leaves near the apiees of branches are often supported by 
two stipulary thorns. The fruit is nutant, longly stipitate and 
cucumber-shaped, bluntly trigonal, three to four inches long, and 
turning red when ripe. 
